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by adi_pradhan6 hours ago |

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by jrm46 hours ago|

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Let me try again, then

If you fuck up badly on here, no one cares at all

If you fuck up badly on Twitter, maybe someone cares

If you fuck up badly on Facebook, people you know find out, maybe no one else.

If you fuck up badly on LinkedIn, you have to find a new job and you've stained yourself in this market.

Thus, anyone posting to LinkedIn is subconsciously saying -- I'm aware that this might STRONGLY hinder my ability to eat but I'm posting it anyway because I think it is that important for some reason. (now that REASON may be fluffy, but still.)

by ramon1566 hours ago|

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Oh, you were not joking.

No, people do not care. You're not a celeb. This is textbook spotlight effect.

Your life becomes a lot more enjoyable if you don't take yourself so serious, try it sometime

by jrm46 hours ago|

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I generally agree with what you're saying here -- I don't mean that "other people ACTUALLY care."

I suppose -- I'm trying to explain why I believe the choice, and thus the material itself, to post LinkedIn might be special in a way that the rest might not?

Like I'm guessing a lot of people do fall into the "spotlight effect" and that affects what is posted.

by booleandilemma4 hours ago|

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I disagree completely. If you post something racist on LinkedIn you're probably going to lose your job. Try it, if you don't believe me. If you post something racist here you're going to get downvoted.

by mancerayder6 hours ago|

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This can be read as why to avoid LinkedIn. Job searching is already hard, if you manage to land an interview you still have to spend time, as an old dude, studying Leetcode like you're a kid with five years experience instead of twenty. Then it's competitive. Etc.

So to this you wish to add the increased risk of negative exposure by saying a bad thing? Or that someone, someones, or people five years from today consider a bad thing?

I love writing and posting and engaging (you can tell from my history here alone), but I'm not crazy enough to risk spilling my feelings on a site full of people in suits and ties, with Leader next to their names.

by jrm46 hours ago|

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I agree with you generally; what I am saying here right now is that how people behave on LinkedIn creates an interesting filter for content in this way in the present, without saying necessarily SHOULD people behave this way.